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Photographer and civic activist Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe was born on July 9, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Longwood Academy in 1969. Moutoussamy-Ashe attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and graduated with her B.F.A. degree from Cooper Union in 1975. In 1977, Moutousamy-Ashe married tennis legend, Arthur Ashe. She published her photo documentary, Daufuskie Island in 1981. In 1988, Arthur Ashe contracted the HIV virus from a contaminated blood transfusion. Moutoussamy-Ashe’s 1993 photography book, Daddy and Me illustrates the love between Ashe and his young daughter, Camera. In 1993, Moutoussamy-Ashe published Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers covering the years 1839 to 1985. Moutoussamy-Ashe was director of Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS and chairperson of Arthur Ashe Foundation. Her book of photographs, The African Flower: The Singing of Angels was published in 2001. That same year, she hosted the documentary, Crucible of the Millennium broadcast nationwide by PBS.Read more...

History Makers video oral history with Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheJeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

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Photographer and civic activist Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe was born on July 9, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Longwood Academy in 1969. Moutoussamy-Ashe attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and graduated with her B.F.A. degree from Cooper Union in 1975. In 1977, Moutousamy-Ashe married tennis legend, Arthur Ashe. She published her photo documentary, Daufuskie Island in 1981. In 1988, Arthur Ashe contracted the HIV virus from a contaminated blood transfusion. Moutoussamy-Ashe’s 1993 photography book, Daddy and Me illustrates the love between Ashe and his young daughter, Camera. In 1993, Moutoussamy-Ashe published Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers covering the years 1839 to 1985. Moutoussamy-Ashe was director of Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS and chairperson of Arthur Ashe Foundation. Her book of photographs, The African Flower: The Singing of Angels was published in 2001. That same year, she hosted the documentary, Crucible of the Millennium broadcast nationwide by PBS.